barneypiccolo

@barneypiccolo@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mom tells me I should cut dad off for cheating on her, am I a bad person for not wanting to do so?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Stick to your guns OP. People here are judging your Dad for cheating, but it sounds like your Mom has been actively alienating everyone around her for years. People who make life difficult for those around them will eventually find themselves alone. People eventually stop dealing with their bullshit, and move on in life. It sounds like you and your Dad decided to move in a less stressful, more fulfilling direction. He found love, and you found peace, while your Mom wants to continue sowing discord, drama, and chaos in your lives. I don’t blame you for rejecting her efforts, and choosing peace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado’s governor vetoes landmark ban on rent-setting algorithms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So a law already exists, but it clearly isn’t being enforced, so they passed a new one with teeth. But this DINO wants the old, weak law to supercede the new, useful law, and the corp that it was meant to stop congratulates him.

  When people say both sides are the same, this is what they mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That still exists, they run TV ads all the time. The ads even have print that says that someone listens to the callers and types out what they say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Community Notes vanishes from X feeds, raising 'serious questions' amid ongoing EU probe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, this should be standard practice.

  And we can call individual messages Xits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve taken 3 polygraphs in my lifetime, and I lied on all three. None of the polygraphers caught the lies, but all three accused me of lying on other questions where I told the truth.

  Polygraphs are voodoo. I might take one for a job, if it were required, but I would never agree to one for the police. I would NEVER trust my freedom to one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Border Patrol detained a nursing mother and separated her from her infant daughter to the point that she needed medical attention as a result of not being able to nurse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t new. In the first administration, they were separating nursing mothers, and non-verbal toddlers. Despite the efforts of the Biden administration, nearly 1000 children have still not been reunited with their parents, and likely never will be.

  And that doesn’t include the kids who ended up trafficked as sex workers or house slaves.

  That policy was never properly investigated. If we ever get out of this, it will be important to investigate EVERY allegation of criminal activity by the MAGA Nazis, and prosecute every perpetrator. No mercy, no forgiveness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Border Patrol detained a nursing mother and separated her from her infant daughter to the point that she needed medical attention as a result of not being able to nurse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just at a get together yesterday, and even standard white citizens are afraid to leave the country, fearing they’ll have a hard time when they return. We’re hearing lots of stories of people being grilled about their social media accounts, their opinions of the government and the president, etc. Eventually they’ll start turning away American citizens for their political views, stranding them in another country without documentation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be Quincy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I flush food down the toilet occasionally. Works great in places without garbage disposals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like Apple is balking at paying the required bribe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨7 for me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get 5, I’ve known a lot of women who wear just a giant T-shirt to bed. 15 is the weird one. I’ve never known a woman to wear a bra to bed, and certainly nothing except a bra. Maybe they have giant, unruly breasts that need to be strapped down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I have a cupcake. And then I take the frosting off the cupcake. Is it still a cupcake, or a muffin?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a half-eaten cupcake. You can take two wheels off a car, but that doesn’t make it a motorcycle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, he was a larger than life character, and the end of the company was spectacular. Most companies end with a whimper, his ended with an explosion.

  I have a little personal anecdote about the end of DeLorean Motor Cars. At the end, I was living in Cleveland, OH, where DeLorean’s brother had a Cadillac dealership, which also sold DeLoreans, of course.

  When the company crashed, the government, or the bank, or the court, or somebody, was coming to take all the cars that were sitting in the factory parking lot in Detroit. The local news caught a helicopter shot of a long line of DeLoreans driving out of the lot, and down the road in a long line. They didn’t bother to follow them.

  A few days later, it was reported that all the surplus DeLoreans were missing, and DeLorean was hiding them somewhere, and they showed the footage of the cars driving off.

  A few days after that, I was taking one of my favorite shortcuts through Lakewood, the suburb where DeLorean Cadillac was located. My shortcut was a small road/alley, with far less traffic and lights, which went behind the businesses along the main road.

  One of those businesses was DeLorean Cadillac, with a big parking lot behind the dealership. I’d passed that lot many times, and it was always a mix of Caddys and DeLoreans, but this time I saw that it was FULL of nothing but DeLoreans, packed in like sardines. I had no doubt that these were the missing DeLoreans that the authorities were searching for.

  So, of course I notified the authorities where they could find the cars, right? Fuck NO. DeLorean didn’t seem like a bad guy, just a major dreamer who got desperate. I always kind of admired him. So I kept my mouth shut, and made the authorities find the cars without my help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨quick health tip⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently read an article about soy sauce being the secret ingredient for a lot of top chefs. They put it in everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is also why if you hit the lottery, you should take the discounted upfront cash payout, and not get it paid in an annual annuity for 20 years. You never know if the government is suddenly going become moral about gambling, and cancel all lottery payments.

  Take the money and run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A while back, I read an article by a guy who had inherited a SwastiKKKar from an uncle, including free life-time charging. He didn’t like the idea of driving a Tesla, but free was free.

  It wasn’t the reactions of others that made him throw in the towel on it, it was the poor build quality. He thought it felt cheap and rattley so he traded it in for a smokin hot Mustang. He lost a fortune over what the car was bought for, but it was free to him, so he didn’t care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Already in the works:

  State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cybertrucks are just sitting around, waiting for someone to officially label them the DeLorean of the 21st century.

  Hey! You take that back! DeLoreans were always cool cars. Their demise wasn’t due to lack of popularity, the company just had problems getting established, and ultimately didn’t survive its initial growth phase.

  Nobody despised the DeLorean, or it’s owner. They just ran out of money, and he tried a desperate Hail Mary play, that didn’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Understanding your target audience when marketing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Giggity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We need more active guitar forums, but it’s still better than Reddit has become.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Filter out the politics, and join a bunch of other forums instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s going to have to be different this time. We let them slide after the Revolution, the Civil War, and WWII, and it has led directly to the mess we are in now.

  If we survive this, it will be imperative that there are harsh punishments for ALL leaders, and all middle management. Street level traitors may not end up in prison, but they should be forced to go to political remediation classes, where they will be properly taught about the Constitution, American History, and Critical Thinking Skills. Recalcitrant “students” can have their sentences commuted to long prison sentences if they’d prefer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird to juggle in the park?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who cares what others think? Live your life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it weird to juggle in the park?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too many people think they are the center of the universe, and everybody is watching them, so they never figure out the people they think are watching, think they are the center of their universe, too, and everyone is watching them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  nobody ever changes their behavior on the strength of the evidence alone.

  Simply not true, at all. People change behavior based on evidence all the time.

  Critical Thinking requires a totally objective perspective, and emotion has no place in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Scientific Method includes a step in which you state your Hypothesis - an educated guess, based on information you already know. There is nothing wrong with that, because it means you are already familiar the established science.

  The issue comes when the experiment uncovers unexpected data and/or conclusions. The proper scientific response is to adjust, or even reject, the hypothesis based on the new data. Someone with good Critical Thinking Skills would have no problem doing that, because a subjective approach, coming up with a truthful conclusion, supported by the data, is always the objective.

  Unfortunately, too many people have a personal desire to make their original hypothesis the truth, either because of their ego, or because they have some sort of personal or economic investment in that hypothesis, etc. These are people who are only using the promise of Critical Thinking to add credibility to their conclusions, when in reality, they were always looking to confirm their own bias.

  And sometimes the research DOES confirm your hypothesis. That’s not necessarily confirmation bias, as long as your hypothesis was always based on accepted scientific principles. Scientists often have a pretty good idea of the outcome of an experiment. A person looking for confirmation bias goes into an experiment hoping to prove their hypothesis correct, while a true scientist goes in hoping that something unexpected will happen, because that gives them something new and interesting to study.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in the 70s, I had one if those subversive high school English teachers - longish hair, no tie, wore bell bottoms, arranged the desks in his classroom in a circle, etc. His name was Mr. Clark.

  Mr. Clark had an unusual teaching style that I really responded to. Much more Socratic, making us defend our ideas, but be willing to change our minds if someone had a better one. I liked his teaching so much, i took his classes 3 years in a row, including 2 Shakespeare classes.

  It wasn’t until years after college, that i realized he wasnt really teaching us Shakespeare, he was teaching us to think, using Shakespeare as a vehicle. We were practicing Critical Thinking Skills every day for three years, without even realizing it.

  It became so ingrained in me to question assertions and allegations without sources, and view everything subjectively before drawing a conclusion, that I found it very easy to resist propaganda. When Rush Limbaugh came on the radio in the late 80s, I was shocked that anyone was buying into his obvious bullshit, but my well-honed Critical Thinking Skills saw through his “logic” instantly.

  At some point, I tried to look up Mr Clark, so I could thank him for being the most influential teacher in my life, but he had passed away about 5 years before. He literally taught me how to think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then they arent using critical thinking skills, they just think they are. With proper use of critical thinking, the conclusion arises from the evidence, it doesnt confirm “pre conceived notions.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not critical thinking at all. Critical thinking is process that questions assertions and sources, and approaches them subjectively. If it is ultimately just confirming your own bias, you haven’t used critical thinking.